The Magnolia gazette., 1887-09-03

puoilC SOou.
TIE CHEGKERED EXPERIENCE
Of your correspondent in other
counties, established the conclu-
sion that Pike county Is one of
the best counties in the State,
and. all things considered, is as
good country as any other to
| live in. 1t is mistaken idea for
young men 10 suppose that Il bet
ter country may be found some
where else. One in ten may be
benefited by leaving Pike and go
ing somewhere else; but nine in
ten will regret it. Removal from
old friends, associates and rela-
tlons, doubles ones difficulties,
aud they always have to make
new S art in life, and thus a
precious life may be fritted away,
wl'h no narticular object IN view
and nothing accomplished in she
end.
IN TRAVELLING OVER
portions of Pike county and up
into Lincoln county, | find a spirit
of general discomfort prevadlng
the people. This may be said to
be one of the secrets of financial
oppression.
HUMAN LIFE
IN this world Is a mere struggle
for existence at best, and there is
an underlying cause for this feel
ing of unrest among the people of
this county, which they by con-
cert OF acton alone, can remedy.
The wonderful growth and in.
crease OF the productions of the
Unired States In every branch of
industry, has, possibly, caused a
corresponding decline in values,
which are not properly balanced
in the scale of justice toward ag-
rlcuIlural classes. / may thus IL
lnstrnte on what your farmers
have to buy from their merchants
after deciding themselves to them
and giving additional security for
due obedience in their servitude.
You have a railroad whose COM
pany is an unconscious leech upon
the pockets of all the people. Its
! local charges on fierghts is sys-
: tenn of heartless oppression, which
should be rebelled against in open
aud unmistakable terms. Your
: farmers have 10 pay from three 10
five times as much freight as oul
people do on the Mississippi Val
7 ley road, below Baton Rouge.
The Illinois Central r. Il. Co.,
charged this wriler $1.O5 freight
: ina 90 pound trunk. beIweer
a Magro' ia and New OIL ans, nearly
two cents pound. A prominent
citizen of Summit, informed me
n thai he was charged 80 cents for
u an iron shoe last, weighing los'
n than two pounds, from Louis
8 vile, KY, TO Summit, which cosi
! only IS cents. Another gentle
man in Holmesville, informs me
that he was charged 81 SO, teighr
on a horse, from Crystal Springs
e to Summit, 40 miles, or about II
:. per cent uf the value of the horse
r You are cha ged proportlnnally
II ON every thing you have to bu.
: from your merchants, who hay,
W to make their profits, to live art
! keep their heads above water
ID You pay nearly double what yor
l. ought to on what you consume
1 while you get half aud sometime
/ quarter value on what you pro
+ duce. When you commence you
IL or 'p of Gotten, The Cottrn Elk
II change IN New Orleans, fixes tn
he price of it at ten and eleven cent
r and you pay for your goods i
l. proportion to that estimate OF
50 your crop. When you are force,
OF by your merchants to rush you
Il cot en- on the market, the Elk
+ change lowers Its price to tn
G. minimum, but the railroad CO
~ don't lower The freight, from Sum
nit down, nor is anything deduct
ed from the high charges ma :
against you in the beginning
us Youi flour cost you $3.50 an
'le $3.50, where you ought to get a
Us good an article for $3.50 an
be IS so. l do not make these a,
rs srrtIons without icing able
ny p owe them by comparison {
my own bills to those OF your pee
pie. j do not propose TO discu,
ce this question, nor handle it wit
ed gloves on. but to portray it as
sit presents itself to my mind. Or
'ly other misfortune. l think, pre-
to vades this country. Yonr me
he chants have made great mistak,
lat in closing mortgages and gettir
,m so many farms in their own hand
ID 1t has discouraged farmers, checl
An al their asf,irafinno anil nnarnr;a